Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

Is My Very Nature That of a Devil (2022)

Jacob Anderson: Louis de Pointe du Lac

Quotes 

• Lestat de Lioncourt : There's a column in here about the history of this lovely square. It says that the man who designed it did so after the Place de Vosges in Paris. I can see that. Used to be called the Place d'Armes. I prefer that. Don't you?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Mm-hmm.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : The Louisiana Purchase was signed here. Penny wise, franc foolish.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Say anything about how they used to take runaway slaves, cut their heads off, and pike 'em on the iron gates as a warning?

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : When your mother sees the Devil in your eyes, it's a hard assessment to abandon. Am I from the Devil? Is my very nature that of the Devil? I had hedged against the question, but now it completely overwhelmed me.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : So you didn't kill her?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : No. She has talents.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Aren't I enough?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [laughs hysterically] 

• Lestat de Lioncourt : [singing]  Oh, joy, oh, boy. Where do we go from here...

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Not funny.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : What can I say? I'm a lot. I'm not perfect.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : [scoffs]  I knew it. I knew you were there.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Yes.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : You jealous?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Yes. I don't like sharing.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : What about Antoinette?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : It's different. I don't have feelings for her.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : He did me some face and I drove him home!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [shouts]  I heard your hearts dancing!

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : I can smell her on you.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : From time to time, I like a little variety. There. I said it. We're communicating so much better now, no?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : So I can fuck whoever I want?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Of course... Of course! Of course. As long as you come home to me. Of course.

  [chuckles] 

• [both shouting] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I heard your hearts dancing!

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : You watched the whole thing like some creeper!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : And then I watched you pull over and drain a dog and run down an alleyway for two more rats! This is not a life!

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : That's 'cause you took my life!

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : You ever think that we -- that's to say, our kind -- were put on earth for a larger purpose?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I put you on this earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : That can't be all there is. I know you don't believe that.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, tell me what I believe, Louis. Excavate the hoarded thoughts buried beneath my damned soul.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : You're angry.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I'm pondering.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Pondering what?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Your night had nothing to do with ridding the world of criminals or finding some morality to buoy your existence. You're ashamed of what we are.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Maybe I'm just pondering what I am.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : For the infinitesimal time, you're a vampire.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : I don't want to kill people anymore. There it is.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : A fish that doesn't swim. A bird refusing flight. You're going to struggle. I fear for the feline population of New Orleans.

• [upon being confronted about the discrepancies in his recollection of his life with Lestat] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait.

  Daniel Molloy : Hmm. Or the more rehearsed.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Perhaps I was mistaken about the 'Wolverine Blues.'

  Daniel Molloy : Fuck the 'Wolverine Blues.' Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. It's the abused-abuser psychological relationship I'm talking about.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I do not consider myself abused.

  Daniel Molloy : I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, the abused still loves the abuser, but you flipped it completely on its head.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I'm not a victim.

  Daniel Molloy : Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate. Like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. Why?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : [reading from Daniel's memoir]  'I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. My editor reminds me it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection.'

  [closes book] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey.

  [Daniel throws away the tapes of their first interview] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Now who's performing?

• Lestat de Lioncourt : We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. I do everything for Louis.

  Antoinette : Yeah, I heard that about you two.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Oh? What have you heard?

  Antoinette : I'm not a gossip.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : But I am.

  Antoinette : Well, people at the Azalea, they say...

  [Lestat runs his hands along Antoinette's waist] 

  Antoinette : You're confusing me.

  [laughs] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Oh, come now. I don't bite. What do the employees of the Azalea say about Louis and Lestat?

  Antoinette : I'll answer with a question. Are there two beds upstairs or one?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Do you want to find out?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : No one goes upstairs, Miss Brown.

  Antoinette : Well, there's my answer.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Still, what do you imagine confines us to a single note? Why not a chord? Why not a cluster?

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : Many streets in New Orleans weren't paved at the time. The mud on his boots could've come from anywhere.

  Daniel Molloy : Was it raining that night?

  [Louis recalls his conversation with Jonah without rain] 

  Daniel Molloy : Did it rain?

  [Louis recalls his conversation with Jonah again, this time with rain] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I don't remember now. It could've been dry in the bayou and wet in the Quarter. It's Louisiana.

  Daniel Molloy : The odyssey of recollection.

• Daniel Molloy : You were the prince of your district. Lestat chased an American icon out of town because he loved you. 1917 doesn't sound like it was such a bad year.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Rigged to burn, Daniel.

• Antoinette : Mr. Louis, you have to convince Lestat to keep playin'.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Got a better chance makin' the Mississippi run north.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. I do everything for Louis.

• Alderman Fenwick : What are you?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I'm a vampire!

• [about the murder of Alderman Fenwick and the ensuing riots] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I didn't do it for me. I did it for my city, my people. Destroy our businesses and buy the land for cheaper. I know what they're doing!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : So that torturous death was for your people? That garish display of his body like some public art piece was for your people?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I didn't see this comin'.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Save that lie for yourself. Did you not smile when he begged? Did you not feel pleasure as you carved him up?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Maybe you saw it comin' and didn't stop me. Maybe you went quiet on purpose.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : You did what you did because it gave you pleasure. Companion of the Dark Gift, finally. We should make this our anniversary.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : I ran from the Quarter that night. Ran to where the violence spread most wild. I stumbled through the streets like an irrational child who had tested his strength on a small bird and now asked, 'Can I make it whole again?' Their faces raced past me like snow in a terrible wind, unaware that it was I who had brought this retribution, it was I who should pay for this sin. And then... one of those inconceivable moments where who you were before and who you'll be forever after is marked in time. A rooming house, now a fire trap. I could not save the Azalea. I could not save Storyville. I could not save the aunt on the wrong side of the wall, but I could save her. My light. My Claudia. My redemption.